The Puppet Who Could Not Find Joy
Dear Diary (or Dear Self), “What do you love in this marionette world? Or is the world a puppeteer, pulling the strings of your heart? You cannot be the world’s marionette and still be a
Dear Diary (or Dear Self), “What do you love in this marionette world? Or is the world a puppeteer, pulling the strings of your heart? You cannot be the world’s marionette and still be a
“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” –Brother David Steindl-Rast
Dear Diary, I pulled out of my driveway this evening and started heading east. My mind was burdened after a hard day, but I was due to speak in thirty minutes at a local church.
“Joy is the serious business of heaven.” –C.S. Lewis from Letters to Malcolm
“My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you–I whom you have delivered.” -Psalm 71:23
“Silence is the perfect herald of joy.” -Shakespeare, from Much Ado About Nothing Claudio goes on to say, “I were but a little happy if I could say how much.” In other words, if I
Dear Diary, I set out that early morning, so many years ago, convinced that by the end of my hour bike ride, I would have prayed THE prayer. How hard could it possibly be to
Dear Diary, “Like the poets who have learned to sit still and sense the gratuitous unfolding of gift around them, I will wait on the Lord who, alone, is Joy” Those were the final words